Numerical simulation of impact of a jet on a wall

Abstract

A computing technique for simulating the impact of a high-speed liquid jet on a wet wall is implemented. Such an impact generates shock waves in the jet, in the liquid layer on the wall, and in the gas surrounding the liquid. Also, the interphase boundary is strongly deformed by such an impact. The technique is based on the Constrained Interpolation Profile-Combined Unified Procedure (CIP-CUP) method combined with the dynamically adaptive Soroban grids. The gas-dynamic equations describing the liquid and gas flow are integrated without an explicit separation of the liquid-gas boundary. Such an approach is shown to be efficient for the considered problems. It allows us to obtain solutions without oscillations near the interfaces (including the case where they interact with the shock waves). For illustrative purposes, we provide the computational results for several one-dimensional and twodimensional problems with the typical features of the impact of a high-speed liquid jet on a wall, as well as a comparison with the known analytical and numerical solutions. The computational results for the problem of the impact of a high-speed liquid jet on a wall covered by a thin liquid layer are also presented.